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Indian biologist (Born: 1963)

Satyajit Mayor (born 1963)^[1] is an Indian biologist.

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Professor Satyajit Mayor.

Satyajit 'Jitu' Mayor.

Mayor studied Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, and obtained his PhD in life sciences from the Rockefeller University.

He started his independent career at the London Research Institute, becoming an EMBO Young Investigator in , and continuing as Member of the Francis Crick.

Mayor is the former director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem) at Bangalore, which has a focus on the study of stem cell and regenerative biology and of the National Centre for Biological Sciences, Bangalore.

Since 2024, Mayor is a Leverhulme International Professor at Warwick Medical School in the Centre for Mechanochemical Cell Biology.

In 2012, Mayor won the Infosys Prize for life sciences for his study of regulated cell surface organization and membrane dynamics.^[2]

Education

Mayor studied chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and was awarded his PhD in life sciences from The Rockefeller University, New York.

He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University, where he developed tools to study the trafficking of membrane lipids and GPI-anchored proteins in mammalian cells using quantitat